The major release this week was obviously ExpressJS 4.0. Crosswalk also seems potentially interesting as a hybrid development platform, though it currently is for Android only. Enjoy! ExpressJS 4.0 was recently released and removes all bundled middleware, overhauled routing and more. ExpressJS 4.0: New Features and Upgrading from 3.0 Crosswalk is a project by Intel […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 10, 2014
This was a busy week - both for new articles and tutorials and for me personally. Sorry this is a late but I have been traveling two weeks in a row back and forth to the bay area. Many f the highlights for me this week were in the “Etc.” section including a look at […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of March 3, 2014
The big news recently was the release of Sass 3.3. Sorry for the delay in getting this out but I am speaking and attending the Fluent Conference this week. If you are here, please say hello. Sass 3.3 includes maps in SassScript, support for generating source maps and much more. Sass 3.3 is Released Francois […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of March 3, 2014
Some really interesting tutorials this week. On this site, I thought TJ VanToll’s look at whether jQuery is too big for mobile was excellent and Guy Levy’s take on using the Levenshtein distance algorithm to improve the results of the web speech API was very clever and useful. Burke Holland wrote a good look at […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 24, 2014
This week features multiple task runners/build tools (Bud and Broccoli) and multiple Web Audio libraries (webaudiox.js and jsfx). Capo is a project and Sublime plugin that helps keep track of event triggers/subscriptions in JavaScript projects. Javascript Event-Driven Architecture-Doing it better with Capo Module Nodyn enables the use of Java libraries within Node, but, according to […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 24, 2014
This week features lots of CSS, (relatively) new JavaScript API’s and a number of interesting tutorials covering a wide array of libraries and frameworks. Tutorials Tim Severien discusses the history of handling grids in CSS and new features in CSS3 that improve the situation. Grids in CSS3 Thomas Palef continues his tutorial on making a […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 17, 2014
Some significant updates this week with Cordova and React. Also, new projects including GSS, INIT, DozerJS seem interesting (though GSS site admittedly made figuring out what it was exactly a little tough for me without digging). Cordova 3.4.0 was released and Steve Gill lists out all of the changes by platform and tool.Apache Cordova 3.4.0 […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 17, 2014
There’s certainly no shortage of great articles and tutorials this week. Sorry for the delay but I was attending and speaking at DevNexus in Atlanta this week. Some highlights below include a look at a new build tool called Fez and building an HTML5 version of Flappy Bird. Enjoy! Tutorials Thomas Palef shares his experience […]
Web Standards Library Update - Week of February 10, 2014
This week features nine brand new libraries and projects including a command line tool for generating screenshots in a variety of resolutions and a tool to convert Scala code to JavaScript. Ben Smith wrote a library to implement the pipes and filters pattern in JavaScript for better async handling in Node. Pipes and Filters to […]
Best of JavaScript, HTML & CSS - Week of February 10, 2014
This week featured a heavy dose of tutorials covering various libraries and frameworks. Some highlights for me were Xuanyi Chew’s post going in depth into how JavaScript’s use of floating points affects its ability to process complex math problems and Mark McDonnell on creating Node CLI tools (a favorite topic of mine for some reason). […]